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From the only person to authentically recreate Shackleton’s journey of survival, Tim Jarvis AM brings you closer to the epic experience than ever before in a 20-minute historical re-creation documentary VR experience.

From the only person to authentically recreate Shackleton’s journey of survival, Tim Jarvis AM brings you closer to the epic experience than ever before in a 20-minute historical re-creation documentary VR experience.

Thin ice vr

In 1914, in one of the last great expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on one of the era’s most ambitious and harrowing journeys: to cross Antarctica coast-to-coast. 

Over a century on, environmental scientist Tim Jarvis AM, and award winning studio, Monkeystack, have recreated Shackleton’s epic, tragic feat of endurance in an immersive virtual reality experience.

 

As we join Jarvis in following Shackleton’s footsteps, we too bear witness to another new and heartbreaking narrative: the icy environment that Shackleton and his peers once explored has now been transformed by the effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Equal parts catastrophic and transcendent, Thin Ice VR presents a uniquely affecting account of how humanity asserts its will over the extremes of nature — often in unforeseen ways.

THIN ICE VR

In 1914, in one of the last great expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on one of the era’s most ambitious and harrowing journeys: to cross Antarctica coast-to-coast. 

Over a century on, environmental scientist Tim Jarvis AM, and award winning studio, Monkeystack, have recreated Shackleton’s epic, tragic feat of endurance in an immersive virtual reality experience.

As we join Jarvis in following Shackleton’s footsteps, we too bear witness to another new and heartbreaking narrative: the icy environment that Shackleton and his peers once explored has now been transformed by the effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Equal parts catastrophic and transcendent, Thin Ice VR presents a uniquely affecting account of how humanity asserts its will over the extremes of nature — often in unforeseen ways.

Experience Thin Ice VR

See Thin Ice VR at HOTA , Home of the Arts.

Sessions running daily from Monday 5th June – Sunday 11th June 2023
in celebration of World Environment Day.

HOTA Café Terrace
HOTA, Home of the Arts
Gold Coast, Queensland

The Thin Ice VR experience is available to hire for presentation in museums, galleries, festivals and other cultural centres around the world.

The worldwide premiere of Thin Ice VR was presented by the Adelaide Film Festival and the South Australian Museum. The inaugural Australian season ran at the South Australian Museum from 20 November 2021 – 6 February 2022. Thin Ice VR is currently in discussions with cultural centres to bring the experience closer to you. Follow the Thin Ice VR social channels to keep up with the latest news, announcements and information on upcoming seasons. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Continue the Thin Ice VR experience after viewing with the Torrens University Australia short course

EXPERIENCE
THIN ICE VR

See Thin Ice VR at HOTA , Home of the Arts.

Sessions running daily from Monday 5th June – Sunday 11th June 2023
in celebration of World Environment Day.

HOTA Café Terrace
HOTA, Home of the Arts
Gold Coast, Queensland

The Thin Ice VR experience is available to hire for presentation in museums, galleries, festivals and other cultural centres around the world.

The worldwide premiere of Thin Ice VR was presented by the Adelaide Film Festival and the South Australian Museum.

The inaugural Australian season ran at the South Australian Museum from 20 November 2021 – 6 February 2022. 

Thin Ice VR is currently in discussions with cultural centres to bring the experience closer to you. Follow the Thin Ice VR social channels to keep up with the latest news, announcements and information on upcoming seasons. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Continue the Thin Ice VR experience after viewing with the Torrens University Australia short course

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